FLAMENCO CONCERT
Join us for the premiere of a new production set for Atlanta.
A conceptual live flamenco concert featuring original music and choreography by an international cast of visiting musicians and dancers.
Experience isolation, imminent death, the fight for beauty, joy, community, and triumph in a world upended by crisis. These are the emotions experienced by artistic director Julie Galle when she was diagnosed with and then treated for breast cancer. During her treatment, nine artists in her flamenco circles died of cancer and an important tenth was diagnosed with an aggressive form of the disease. She advocates for early screening, especially mammograms, to detect and treat cancers so that patients live long lives despite the disease. She also tells the success story of cold-capping during chemotherapy, to prevent hair loss. In fact, she tells lots of stories about what she faced and how it shifted her perspective on living, loving, and dancing.
The development and rehearsal of Cosmic Assassin is supported by a Theatre Workspace Award from Gateway Performance Productions.
A portion of the choreography for the production was developed during the Meli Kaye Residency at the Decatur School of Ballet.
We are grateful to the Emory University Performing Arts Studio for the support of its production staff and loan of space for our concerts.
INTERNATIONAL DANCES
Berdolé is thrilled to participate in the (MC)2 Festival in 2026.
(MC)2 is a biennial multi-cultural dance festival, curated by George Staib & staibdance. The festival unites Atlanta based culturally rooted dance organizations under one roof for classes, performances and community conversations. Details >>
Clips from our performance during the last edition of the (MC)2 Festival
AWARDS
ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Congratulations to our director Julie Galle for being named Artist of the Year by the Atlanta Chapter of the National League of American Pen Women.
Julie is being recognized for her work as a choreographer, teacher, and producer in flamenco arts for 25 years. During that time, she has been a faculty member of the Atlanta Ballet and the Dance and Movement Studies Program at Emory University. She has been a teaching artist on the rosters of the Georgia Council for the Arts, the Fulton County Schools Teaching Museum, Arts and Science Council of North Carolina, and Young Audiences Woodruff Arts Center. She also joined ArtsNOW as a Dance Consultant, working across the Southeastern U.S. Her role as an educator spawned first-hand research that resulted in published scholarship in the field of flamenco history and contemporary social issues related to the art form.
Through Berdolé, Julie raised the bar of flamenco talent in metro Atlanta by presenting visiting artists in concert and education, so that people in the place where she lives can enjoy flamenco the way that she experiences it in Spain, where she has studied and conducted research for two decades. The production company has also become a vehicle to bring flamenco to other cities, via tours, online classes, and behind-the-scenes work from graphic design to production management.
As an artist, Julie has produced traditional and contemporary flamenco works, the latter exploring connections between flamenco and spoken word, Jazz, Hip Hop, and Indian dance styles. She has created work as a resident artist for Mathematics-In-Motion and the Decatur School of Ballet. As Executive Director of A Través, she is a founder of the Atlanta Flamenco Festival and La Feria ATLANTA, which recognizes La feria de abril in Seville, Spain.
The award ceremony takes place in May in Atlanta.
THANK YOU
2026 ¿SONIQUÉ? U.S.A. TOUR
Thank you to the Soniqueteros who joined us to move por bulerías during the ¿Soniqué? 2026 U.S.A. Tour. Here are some pictures of the fun we had in Denver, Washington, D.C., and Dallas, during the tour in May and June.
SIXTH-ANNUAL LA FERIA ATLANTA
Berdolé was pleased to provide production support to A Través during La Feria ATLANTA 2026 on April 12, 2026. It was the sixth year that the non-profit produced a festival of music and dance to welcome spring, Spanish-style. Details and more photos >>
FLAMENCO SCHOOL PROGRAMS
K-12 SCHOOLS
Thank you to Fulton County Schools, where Spanish language students studied how art evolved and moved along historical shipping routes while they learned to move like flamenco dancers in January and February, 2026.
Flamenquillo is our arts integration practice, bringing flamenco into the schools to teach about social studies, math, modern languages, 21st century skills, and literacy. Our programs are led by a professional teaching artists with 20 years of experience ‘crossing the curriculum’, trained in STEM and STEAM methodologies, and vetted by Woodruff Arts Center Arts for Learning, the Georgia Council for the Arts, ArtsNOW, and Arts and Sciences Council. Details >>